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Last January, when Frank Murphy was appointed No. i law enforcement officer of the U. S., Tom Dewey was already better known as New York County's Republican prosecutor of crooked Democrats. Tom Dewey convicted Tammany Hall's notorious Jimmy Hines.
Although his grandfather migrated to Missouri some 100 years ago, Publisher Griffin is a professional Irishman. Nine months of the year he is a loyal Tammany man; in summer he usually goes to Ireland and makes speeches on trade, which the Hearstpapers dutifully report. What Ireland needs most, after independence...
Newshawks knew that income tax evasion charges against William R. Skidmore, politically potent Chicago gambling tycoon, was one of the cases on Mr. Murphy's mind. They also knew that similar charges, of great magnitude, were being pressed in Kansas City against an even greater overlord than Tammany'...
In 1916, after another Republican reform regime (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's) came in, Jimmy Hines had to live on savings. In 1918 he got into the Malto-Dextrine (glucose) business as a factory supervisor and trucker for $100 a week and a percentage of profits. He arranged the...
That year, aged 42, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army's motor transport and went abroad to serve nearly a year in France. In 1920 he returned to politics, beat out Abraham Kaplan for Tammany leadership of his district. The next year he braved Boss Murphy...